KAREN HALL

Karen HallSans le savoir, vous avez contracté une dette, une dette diabolique que vous et vos enfants paierez pendant longtemps. " Ces paroles de la voyante qu'elle avait consultée jadis, Lucy Landry ne les a jamais oubliees. Depuis, elle a vecu dechiree entre menace et effroi. Surtout apres les morts tragiques de deux de ses fils et le suicide de son mari. Des annees plus tard, Cameron, le troisieme fils de Lucy, se tire une balle dans la tete apres avoir devalise un magasin. Jack, l'aine, est le seul survivant. Mais pour combien de temps oe Michael Kinney, un jeune pretre exorciste, est decide a empecher la prediction de s'accomplir. A-t-il vraiment mesure le prix qu'il risque de devoir payer oe

In Dark Debts, Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, romantic comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has become a cult favorite since being published twenty years ago. In this new anniversary edition, the author has reimagined her work. The result is a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply spiritual novel that captivates from the very beginning and doesnt let go.When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that hes leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cams brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened.Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret from him.How these characters converge is part of the thrilling mystery of Dark Debts, a cult favorite first published twenty years ago. In this new edition, author Karen Hall has reimaged her southern gothic tale and the result is a work of even greater powera brilliantly realized and suspenseful evocation of the conflict between good and evil.

Victorian London is about to celebrate another Christmas as widower and barrister Daniel Hollingsworth struggles with his decision to re-enter not only politics but the marriage game as well. After all, hes only in his fifties, the best time of life for a man, and the attentions of a politicians lovely widow are tempting indeed. But the growing presence of pretty, liberal newspaper owner, suffragist and widow Tabitha Goforth is turning his life upside down, dragging him into all kinds of crazy causes. Not a suitable kind of wife for a politician. So why is his heart wondering if perhaps "that woman" ,the most troublesome woman in London, might be the best running mate after all? Widow Tabitha Goforth may be that woman, but with her own liberal newspaper and so many causes to uphold-why stay silent? And its such fun to goad barrister Daniel Hollingsworth-if only because he helped send her older daughter to jail. But when Hollingsworth helps a pupil from her younger daughters school out of a legal tangle, she finds herself drawn to the handsome widower, stirring up old longings she thought she would never feel again. Will she be ringing in the New Year alone or will Hollingsworths kiss prove to be headiest cup Christmas cheer-the chance to love and be loved once more.

A new sweet Christmas romance from best selling author Karen Hall. A museum director without an artist for the biggest show of the year and an art teacher with students and special needs clients who need a place for their show must join forces to fulfill their obligations, never expecting to find the greatest gift of all-love.